Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-01
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Gould yesterday. The amount was 10000
shares, which, with the $4,000 shares
previously disposed OF by Field. shows q
total holding of 10000 shares. The value
Of Fields block of stock at market prices
before the downward movement was SILL
20O,0U0. lie now has no interest in Man
haitian, and viii retire from the Board of
Directors. Gould will keep 10000 shares
to add to his own holding, making his
total S10000000 He viii split up the
block into 10000 shares. This stock was
subscribed yesterday. Field claims that
he got Sl20 per share for his stock
CleveIand's Clemency
WASHINGTON, June 30th-The President
has acted upon applications for pardon of a
number OF convicted criminals. The most
important case is that of Thomas Ballard,
the notorious counterfeiter, who was SEN
fenced January 81, 1875 to thirty years
imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary.
The PRESIDENT has granted him a pardon.
he says the prisoner was supposed 10 be
one of the most expert counterfeiters in the
country. He had been in prison equal to
more than fifteen years, allowing the de-
dnchon be has secured for good behavior.
He has grown to be au old man, and is
broken down physically and mentally
Drought in Illinois.
Rock Island ql), June 30th.-The
farmers IN this section of the country are
IN desperate straits for lack of rain, and at
Cam bridge, thirty miles southeast of here,
Tuesday, special services were held in the
Congregational Church for the purpose of
offering up prayers for rain.
Unless relief comes shortly this meeting
at Cambridge will stand simply as the first
OF large series of prayer meetings for
rain, not only in Northwestern Illinois but
throughout it and in large areas of neigh
boring States.
Shipping League Convention.
CHICAGO, June 30th.-The Lake Shore
and Mississippi Valley departments of the
American Shipping and Industrial League
assembled IN Convention here yesterday,
but nothing of importance was accom-
plished beyond the appointment of COM
mittees and the delivery of several address
es. Two hundred accredited delegates were
represented at to-day's session of the
League.
Little FURRY in Wheat.
New York, June 30th.-To-morrow will
be the last day for the delivery of red win
ter wheat on June options, and to-day the
price ran up from 928 cents to 81 OF. Sew
eral lots were reported, and an unusually
large number of purchases under the rule
were made by the committee Seventeen
loads were purchased, but only six were
needed, so that several parties were left
with extra wheat, for which they had
paid 81 OF, on hand.
America Against England.
BosToN, June 30th.-The friends of Jack
McAuliffe, the light weight champion OF
America. and Jim Carney. the light
weight champion Englishman, have ar
ranged d match between the two for the
lightweight championship of the world
The fight Will be to finish. with skin
tight gloves, Marquis of Queensberry
rules. The battle viii be for 81 500 a side,
to take place between the 1st and 6th dav
OF October next, within 500 miles of Bos-
ton.
Ohio Profiibitionists.
DELAWARE TO-, June 30th.-In the Ohio
State Prohibition Convention to-day the
platform was read. 1t says of the Dow
liquor law that an ample trial has shown
that ii was designed as @ seeming conces-
sion to temperance, while really putting
the cause at a disadvantage. The Labor
plank was opposed by Schumacher and
others, and the Convention finally adopted
plain denunciation of anarchy. Women
suffrage was not indorsed. A full State
ticke was nominated, with Morris Sharp
for Governor.
Chicago Labor Troubles.
CHICAGO, June 30th.-The National Fed
Grafton OF Trades Council Te-assembled this
morning, and after adopting resolutions ia
voring the appointment of an Arbitration
Committee To settle the strike with the
Master Builders Association. adjourned
until the third Tuesday in September.
when meeting will be held in Chicago.
Strikers Return to Labor.
PITTsBURG, June 30th.-All the differ
ences between the;manufacturers and iron
and steel workers were amicablv adjusted
at the conference to-day, and the iron
works scale was signed by the Joint COM
mittee. Work IN the mills will now go on
as usual.
PIeuro-Pne umonia in New York,
New York, June 30th.-Pleuro-pneu-
monia, which has been raging in the upper
part OF Westchester county, has attacked
the cattle at Throgg's Neck The State of
fcials were notified yesterday, and q strict
quarantine established. The infected ami
mails will be killed at once.
The Ward Island Asylum,
New YoRK, June 3oth.-The inyestiga-
ton into the management OF the Ward
ISldA0 IAcdlAt Asylum WIS confined TO-
day. Several witnesses testified in regard
to the inhuman treatment Of patients by
brutal attendants
CleveIand's Summer.
WASHINGTON, June 3oth.-I is said at
the White House that the President de
cided to attend the centennial cell bration
at Clinton, N. Y, on the 18th prox., but
beyond that he mas not completed his ar
ranpemeDtS for the s3Inlmqr
Fine Scores If tho Birds were Fast.
DEs MoINEs, June 30th.-The contest for
the championship Of America in pigeon
trap shooting here to-day was won by c.
w. Budd, of Des Moines. who killed 81
birds out OF 100. J. H. Stice, of Illinois,
killed 80. The rise Was thirty yards.
Missouri Pacific Oficiais.
ST. LOUIS, June 30th.-William Kerriean
General Superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific, having resigned, A. w. Dickinson
has been appointed General Superintendent
of the lines in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
and indian Territory, and Joseph Herril
for the remaining lines.
Another Shake In New Hampshire,
CONCORD, June 30th.-One of the most
distinct shocks Of earthquake ever expert
enced here was felt at 5:09 o'clock this after
noon. Similar shocks are reported from
Manchester, \. H., and Bellows Falls, VT.
Alleged Railroad Purchase.
GALVESTON, June 30th-A special to the
NeWs from San Antonio says it is rumored
that the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railway has been sold to the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Company.
Employees " Let Out"
WASHINGTON, June Goth. = Forty en-
ployes Of the Government Printing Office,
principally in the binding and folding de-
paFtments, were discharged to-day.
Another i" PrerogatiYe''
WAsHISGToS, June 90,h.-The Postoffice
at Sonora, Tuolumne county, California,
has been raised from the fourth to the
Presidential class.
Columbia Defeats Harvard.
New LONDON Conn. j, June 3Oth.-In the
freshmen race between Harvard and Col
umbia the latter won
Harry Wilkes Wins Trot.
PHILADELPHIA, June 30th. - Harry
Wilkes won the race with Gossip, Jr. The
hest time 2-tH1